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How to make a login link Joomla 1.5

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Joomla 1.5
com_user

How to make a login link in Joomla 1.5 is asked quite regularly in forums.
Here's how to do it and add a bit of interactivity with the user.

joomla login link menu

Code updated 18.10.2010 to latest J1.5-21

The first way is to add a menu item to the login screen.
In the Menu Manager select "New" and type "External Link".
The url to use is http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_user&view=login

You can also add it directly in your template at a suitable position and style it appropriately -

<!--login link-->
   <div id="loginlink">
	<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_user&view=login">Login </a> 
   </div>
<!--end login link-->

If we want to add a bit of user interactivity then we first need to get the users name with a JFactory call and store it in a variable which we place in the php section of the template -

$username =& JFactory::getUser();

Then we can use this to greet the user if they are logged in and also provide a logout link.

<!--login link-->
   <div id="loginlink">
	<?php
          
$username =& JFactory::getUser();
	if ($username->guest) {
	echo '<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_user&view=login" >Login</a>';
		} else {
		$name = $username->get('username'); 
		echo 'Hi ' . $name . ' -  <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_user&task=logout" >Logout</a>';
		}
	?> 
   </div>
<!--end login link-->

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Try this:

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/login_protocol

This allows logging in by GET protocol, which means you can actually log in by klicking the link.

J!1.5 and J!1.7

hello

Thanks for the very useful tutorial!!! Very Happy

How do I get the program in the first place? Is it free?
Thanks,
Mr. Green

Very nice tutorial, its sound very useful

thankyou...

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www.uaejobszone.com

This is Perfect...Thanks for the post

it's what i am seeking for... thanks......

Nice work - just what I needed. But somehow the spec must have changed - com_user&view=logout gives me an error while com_user&view=login seems more right (brings you to the user component where you will find a Logout button).

Also, I needed a little extra - namely a link to the user's data in order for the user to change password and so on. In DNN you click the name and I find this to be a intuitive solution. Here's the complete code snippet for this:

<div id="loginlink">
<?php
if ($username->guest) {
echo '<a href="/index.php?option=com_user&view=login">Login</a>';
} else {
$name = $username->get('name');
echo 'Hi <a href="/index.php?option=com_user&view=user&layout=form">' . $name . '</a> - <a href="/index.php?option=com_user&view=login">Logout</a>';
}
?>
</div>

The Text box and the login button are not showing up.

please help.

Thanks!

hi, guys! I really need this to work. I love it, think it's great, but when I log in, it does not show my name, it keeps showing Login. and when I click logout it shows the 505 joomla error page. Also, I don't know if I put this $username =& JFactory::getUser(); in the right place - in the first baseurl . '/templates/' . $this->template;
artxComponentWrapper($document);
$username =& JFactory::getUser();
?>) .

Is that right?

thank you all so much!

Hey
Its working fine work nice
Thanks,

Nice work!

Helped me fix a problem! Thank you!

Thanks!
Line fixed....

should be "com_user&view=logout" on the 5th line from the bottom - just to save headaches should somebody copy paste this

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